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Leavenworth, Kansas. June 9 1918. Dear Mother:- I received your last letter yesterday & I suppose there will be one for me today. I am getting all my mail addressed to Barracks 229 now. I am glad you sent the things I asked for. They haven't come yet but I suppose they will show up in a day or two, the mail system isn't very good here you know, but as good as can be expected. I saw quite a few things today. Stanley Ramseth is out of the hospital now. He's in my company & bunks in the same squad room. This morning we took quite a long walk. We took a camera with us & took a few pictures & as soon as they are developed I will send you some. We first went out on the range & looked at the trenches. They certainly look like the real thing, they were built by the engineers who just left here a short while ago. There are dugouts, firing trenches, communications.

Page 1 of the letter from Homer Mason to his mother Melinda Mason from Fort Leavenworth during World War I.

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Leavenworth, Kansas. June 9 1918. Dear Mother:- I received your last letter yesterday & I suppose there will be one for me today. I am getting all my mail addressed to Barracks 229 now. I am glad you sent the things I asked for. They haven't come yet but I suppose they will show up in a day or two, the mail system isn't very good here you know, but as good as can be expected. I saw quite a few things today. Stanley Ramseth is out of the hospital now. He's in my company & bunks in the same squad room. This morning we took quite a long walk. We took a camera with us & took a few pictures & as soon as they are developed I will send you some. We first went out on the range & looked at the trenches. They certainly look like the real thing, they were built by the engineers who just left here a short while ago. There are dugouts, firing trenches, communications.